Encouraging Patriotism Through Stories
The Great Hearts Institute is very proud to be the steward of What So Proudly We Hail, an anthology of songs, stories, and poems celebrating the American experience. With the... Read more
Thoughts from a Symposium Rookie
Nick Hutchison was a valued contributor to the National Symposium for Classical Education this past year, and we are very pleased to announce that he will be returning again in... Read more
For Once, Then, Something
Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the well than where the water Gives me back in a... Read more
Teaching Poetry in Season
Of all the fine arts, poetry is the most difficult to teach. The popular conception of poetry itself, shaped as it was by the modernist rebellion against form, convention, and... Read more
Rightful Ownership of the Arts
A lively discussion about the rightful ownership of art recently took place in a course I am teaching. We were considering masterworks of ancient sculpture that have been purchased and... Read more
Art and Judgement
A culture consists of all those activities and artifacts which are organized by the “common pursuit of true judgment” as T.S. Eliot once put it. And true judgment involves the... Read more
Issue 13: The Director’s Take
Earlier this spring, the Great Hearts Institute played host to a bevy of scholars, artists, teachers, and school leaders. All were gathered in Phoenix for the 4th Annual National Symposium... Read more
Remembering Amy Kass
Amy A. Kass (1940–2015) was born on Constitution Day, a fitting coincidence given the life she would lead. At the University of Chicago, where she taught for 34 years, she... Read more
Fall Remembrances
More than 80 years ago, W.H. Auden set verse to his grief over one of the darkest days in modern Western history: “September 1, 1939,” the day Germany invaded Poland.... Read more
How can we love again? | VIRTUE Podcast with Andrew Zwerneman of Cana Academy
In this inaugural episode of the VIRTUE Podcast, brought to you by the Great Hearts Institute, Dr. Robert L. Jackson talks to Andrew Zwerneman of Cana Academy—Master Teacher, advocate for... Read more
The Road Not Taken in American Education
I was heartened to read Jenna and Ben Storey’s recent piece in the New York Times (reprinted at AEI’s site), which distinguishes two incommensurable roads for higher education: college as a... Read more
